America First promised fewer wars. Iran is testing that promise
By Brian Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker
Five months into the Iran conflict, supporters are asking whether America First still means fewer wars.
One of President Donald Trump’s defining campaign themes was refreshingly simple: America should stop fighting endless wars.
He repeated that message across three presidential campaigns. Iraq was a mistake. Afghanistan became a twenty-year quagmire. America had spent trillions of dollars, sacrificed thousands of lives, and, too often, had little to show for it beyond instability and nation-building projects that rarely fulfilled their promises.
During a 2016 presidential debate, Trump called the Iraq War “a big fat mistake.”
Eight years later, while campaigning for a return to the White House, he promi...